956
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This article is about the year 956. For the number see 956 (number). For the car, see Porsche 956.
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Centuries: | 9th century – 10th century – 11th century |
| Decades: | 920s 930s 940s – 950s – 960s 970s 980s |
| Years: | 953 954 955 – 956 – 957 958 959 |
| 956 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 956 CMLVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1709 |
| Armenian calendar | 405 ԹՎ ՆԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5706 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -888–-887 |
| Bengali calendar | 363 |
| Berber calendar | 1906 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1500 |
| Burmese calendar | 318 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6464–6465 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙卯年十一月十六日 (3592/3652-11-16) — to —
丙辰年十一月廿七日(3593/3653-11-27) |
| Coptic calendar | 672–673 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 948–949 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4716–4717 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1012–1013 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 878–879 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4057–4058 |
| Holocene calendar | 10956 |
| Igbo calendar | |
| - Ǹrí Ìgbò | -44–-43 |
| Iranian calendar | 334–335 |
| Islamic calendar | 344–345 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Juche calendar | N/A (before 1912) |
| Julian calendar | 956 CMLVI |
| Korean calendar | 3289 |
| Minguo calendar | 956 before ROC 民前956年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1499 |
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Year 956 (CMLVI) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
- An earthquake badly damages the Lighthouse of Alexandria.
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- April 8 – Gilbert of Chalon, Duke of Burgundy
- Ali al-Masudi, Arab historian, geographer and philosopher
